Improvement in pen-holders



A. CANTREL.

PEN-HOLDER.

Patented J'unel3, 1876.

NFETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON. D. Q

UNITED STATES A'I'ENI" 'FFICE. 4

ALPHONSE QANTREL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EBERHARD FABEB, OFSAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,730, dated June 13,1876 application filed April 21, 1876.

This invention consists in a pen-holder com-.

posed of a tube which is open at both ends, and secured at its inner endto a suitable handle, while its outer end is made to form two elasticsegmental open-ended prongs, in combination with a sleeve which embracesthe double-pronged tube, and which bears against a shoulder on thehandle, so that the shank of a metallic pen can be inserted between theprongs of the tube and the sleeve on either side of said prongs, andthat said pen, when thus inserted, will be securely retained, while bysuch connection all the elasticity requisite for a good pen-holder ispreserved.

In the drawing, the letter A designates the handle of my pen-holder,which may be madeof wood, or of any other material suitable for thispurpose. To one end of this handle is firmly secured a tube, B, which ismade of thin elastic sheet metal, open at both ends, and provided at itsouter end with two segmental prongs, a a. Over this doublepronged tube Bis fitted a sleeve, O, the inner end of which bears against a shoulder,'12, of the handle A, and which is made of such length that when thesame is pushed up against said shoulder the prongs a a of the tube Bextend beyond its outer end, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing.

In the example shown in the drawing the body of the tube B is closed,and said tube is fastened to the handle by means of a depressed bead,0,- but the body of the tube may be split throughout its whole length,and it may be secured to the handle by any suitable means.

By combining the sleeve 0 with the doublepronged tube B and the handleA, a penholder is obtained, into which the shank of a metallic pen canbe inserted on either side of the prongs in Figs. 1 and 3, and also on.either side of said prongs in Figs. 2 and 4.

In the former case the prong against which the pen bears is crowded in,while the other prong is pressed up against the inner surface of thesleeve, and the pen, while it is-securely same as above. At the sametime the prongs of my pen-holder adapt themselves readily to theformation of the shanks of different pens,

and a pen-holder is produced which is superior in convenience, and whichcan be manufactured at comparatively small expense.

I am aware that. pen-holders have heretofore been made, composed of ahandle, a pronged tube, and a sleeve embracing said pronged tube; but inall cases of this kind which have come to my knowledge the prongs areclosed at their ends, and their capability of changing their curvatureand of accommodating themselves to the formation of the shanks ofdifferent pens is destroyed, and a pen inserted in such pen-holder doesnot possess the elasticity which it preserves when used in one of mypen-holders.

I disclaim everything shown and described in the patent of J ulienLarru, No. 162,393, dated April 20, 1875.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a pen-holder, the combination of a han- (110, A, tube B, open at bothencls,,and pro- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I vided with twoelastic openended prongs, a have hereunto set my hand and seal this 3da, and a sleeve, (3, which embraces the double- (lay of April, 1876.

pronged tube B, each of said open-ended prongs being adapted to changeits curvature, A. OANTREL. [L. 8.] as set forth, and the whole beingconstructed Witnesses: and operating substantially as shown and de- W.HAUFF,

scribed. .E. F. KASTENHUBER. i

